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“How far? How deep? What kind of caverns? There is no way of knowing until somebody actually goes down there,” said Hickson. Hollis and Pollack have applied for a three- year permit to explore the cave further. They have assembled a group of specialist vertical alpine cavers, including members of the Alberta/British Columbia Cave Rescue Service, who set the depth record at the Bisaro Anima cave near Fernie, BC, in 2018. Hickson and colleague Peter Lewis, P.Geo., make up the geology team. “We have three world-class geological features within the park,” said Hickson. “We have Helmcken Falls, a 141-metre- high waterfall in the southern part of the park, a gorgeous, pristine, relatively young 2,000-year-old cinder cone called Kostal Cone, and then we have the cave. What I’m

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